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The God Project

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From the bonding felt by the robots creator, to the comically failed experiments in machine intelligence, The God Project is a little too believable. Thats what makes it scary. God in this story is Games Of Defense, and not only has the perfect bionic soldier been manufactured, but it has escaped into society, a more than human thingie wandering around out in the great fire of humanity. Then, from the mass, comes a new religious leader, able to captivate audiences with insight and convincing arguments, whose power grows at a fantastic pace so that established government fears him to the point of plotting against his life. It is hypothesized that the Christian Mahdi is in fact the escaped AI soldier, and it is up to the reader to find out the rest. A must for the student of technological conjecture and history, a springboard by which to extrapolate and infer beyond the veil of government classification. Bill

After DUNN'S CONUNDRUM we're not surprised that Lee doesn't take the Cold Warrior slant of most thrillers, but the step towards SF is an interesting twist. A Presidential assistant with an eidetic memory catches hints of a secret project started by the previous administration; in a good twist, this isn't the reason why the project starts investigating him. Think of Gene Wolfe's "The HORARs of War" as an action novel. A bit formulaic (but without the cliched angst of Le Carre and his imitators), but I found it worth rereading and regret not finding any later work from an author who doesn't fit into a neat category.

The God Project by Stan Lee was as much fun to read in 2011 as it was when it first came out, in the 1990s. It is imaginative, well-written and, in an offbeat way, topical.

The characters are unique and interesting.

I do not want to go into the details of the plot because that might ruin it for a person who had not read it.